The week in physics: Maurice Sendak; Origami robot; Removing carbon dioxide from the air

Where the atomic nuclei are: Maurice Sendak, physics illustrator Forward this email View in your browser THE WEEK IN PHYSICS: 19–23 AUGUST Where the atomic nuclei are: Maurice Sendak, physics illustrator The first credited work of the famed children's book author was a set of illustrations in a 1947 popular-science book about nuclear physics. Ryan Dahn Origami-inspired robot folds into more than 1000 shapes Composed of small cubes, the robot needs only a few motors to be active at any one time to transform between configurations. Jennifer Sieben FROM THE VAULT: January 1993 The birth of the Nuclear Age When Ernest Rutherford dismissed nuclear energy as 'moonshine' in 1933, Leo Szilard took it as a personal challenge. Nine years later, under a Chicago grandstand, Enrico Fermi demonstrated the first self‐sustaining uranium pile. Albert Wattenberg A molecular-scale water wheel removes carbon dioxide from the air A chemical trick harnesses energy from a humidity gradient to take carbon dioxide out of the air. Could it become another tool to mitigate climate change? Laura FaTtaruso A menagerie of Martian auroras The red planet's auroral activity stems from processes that are not seen on Earth. Justin Deighan Research facilities strive for fair and efficient time allocation Distributed evaluations, machine learning, and lotteries are among the tactics being tested to improve the process and integrity of peer review. TOni Feder FROM THE AUGUST MAGAZINE Fermilab goes deep to silence noisy radiation affecting qubits Scientists troubleshoot to improve quantum computers. Hannah H. Means Get notified about our webinars and whitepapers Sign up Get Physics Today delivered for just $25 per year Subscribe Accelerating career connections worldwide for over 75 years BROWSE ALL JOBS POST A JOB CREATE JOB ALERTS FEATURED JOBS Assistant Professor—Theoretical Nuclear Physics University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) View Job Senior Executive Service as the Superintendent of the Space Science Division US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) View Job Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (Experimental) Colby College (Waterville, ME) View Job Faculty Open Rank—Department of Physics & Astronomy Hunter College (New York, NY) View Job Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) View Job Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Experimental Physical or Analytical Chemistry Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland) View Job Physics Today is published by the American Institute of Physics 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 USA +1 301 209 3100 © 2024 American Institute of Physics. Unsubscribe  |  Email Preferences  |  Privacy Policy  |  Contact Us